...esentatives by the Rev. T. H. Stockton, chaplain of the last House. This was the first session of this Congress, and the House of Representatives was organized by the election of Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania , to be speaker or presiding officer. On the second day of the session, President Lincoln sent into Congress, by the hands of his private secretary, J. G. Nicolay, a message, devoted almost exclu...